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"This book shows Shakespeare confronting political, social, and philosophical issues: the motives of characters and ethical judgments on them; the defining features of legal systems; the problem of economic inequality; the limits and costs of power in colonial and other situations; the mind's capacity to know the world, other minds, and the supernatural"--
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C'est en 1623, sept ans après la mort de Shakespeare, que fut publié en Angleterre le fameux infolio - plus familièrement appelé « Premier Folio » - sans lequel nous ne disposerions que d'une partie de l'oeuvre de ce prodigieux dramaturge. Grâce à deux acteurs de sa compagnie, John Heminges et Henry Condell, de nombreuses pièces telles que Macbeth, Le Conte d'hiver ou La Tempête furent ainsi sauvées de l'oubli. Le quatrième centenaire de cet événement est l'occasion de faire le point sur Shakespeare et les recherches fécondes qui lui sont consacrées en ce début de XXIe siècle. Qu'il s'agisse de son théâtre ou de sa poésie, de la question centrale de la traduction de ses oeuvres, de leur mise en scène ou de leur adaptation à l'écran ou à l'opéra, de thèmes en résonance avec l'actualité comme ceux de l'environnement ou de la représentation des femmes, de la présence de la science dans le corpus théâtral, des rapports à la fois subtils et complexes que Shakespeare pouvait entretenir avec l'épineuse question de la religion, ce numéro d'Europe ouvre de multiples perspectives. Tout en restituant Shakespeare dans son époque turbulente et passionnée, il explore des aspects captivants de l'édition de ses oeuvres et de leur réception par les lecteurs et le public à travers les siècles. Il montre aussi à quel point son théâtre a été précurseur de l'idée européenne, aussi bien sur le plan physique, par le truchement des compagnies ambulantes d'acteurs anglais venant jouer sur le continent, que sur le plan intellectuel. Comme l'observait Henri Fluchère, toute quête que l'on fait dans l'oeuvre de ce magicien de la scène et de la langue apporte sa récompense, sous la forme d'un surcroît de lucidité : « Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence critique, après tout, sinon la faculté de découvrir des rapports nouveaux entre l'oeuvre et nous-mêmes ? Il est réconfortant de penser que l'oeuvre de Shakespeare, sollicitée de toutes parts, a toujours de nouvelles réponses à nous faire, et qu'elle ne sera pas, de longtemps, épuisée. »
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"These thirty-eight short essays show how Shakespearean drama stages virtue as a capacity for connection within and across distinct environments of belonging. Individual virtues such as hospitality, prudence, wit, and trust enable pluralism while asserting core commitments, channelling strength and yearning into the courage to be seen and heard"--
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Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his rivals and contemporaries. Appearing midway through his career, these anthologies marked a critical moment in Shakespeare's life. They testify to the reputation he had established as a poet and playwright by the end of the sixteenth century. In extracting passages from their contexts, though, they also read Shakespeare in ways that he might have imagined being read. After all, this was how early modern readers were taught to treat the texts they read, selecting choice excerpts and copying them into their notebooks. Taking its cue from these anthologies, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 offers new readings of the formative works of Shakespeare's first decade in print, from Venus and Adonis (1593) to Hamlet (1603). It illuminates a previously neglected period in Shakespeare's career, what it calls his 'anthology period'. It investigates what these anthologies made of Shakespeare, and what he made of being anthologized. And it shows how, from the early 1590s, his works were inflected by the culture of commonplacing and anthologizing in which they were written, and in which Shakespeare, no less than his readers, was schooled. In this book, Ted Tregear explores how Shakespeare appealed to the reading habits of his contemporaries, inviting and frustrating them in turn. Shakespeare, he argues, used the practice of anthologizing to open up questions at the heart of his poems and plays: questions of classical literature and the schoolrooms in which it was taught; of English poetry and its literary inheritance; of poetry's relationship with drama; and of the afterlife he and his works might win―at least in parts.
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The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World explores Shakespeare’s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable insights on a key aspect of Shakespeare’s work that has been little explored to date. Focusing on the most memorable scenes of insult, abusive characters and insulting effects in the plays, the volume shifts how readers understand and read Shakespeare’s insults. Chapters analyze the spectacular rhetoric of insult in Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens; the ‘skirmishes of wit’ in Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; insult and duelling codes in Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and Twelfth Night, the complex relationships between slander and insult in Much Ado about Nothing and Measure for Measure;the taming of the tongue in Richard III and The Taming of the Shrew, the trauma of insults in Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Cymbeline and insult beyond words in Henry V and King lear. Grasping insult as a specific speech act, the volume explores the issues of verbal violence and verbal shields and the importance of reception and interpretation in matters of insult. It offers a panorama of the Elizabethan politics of insult and redefines Shakespeare’s drama as a theatre of insults.
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"Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe"--
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